Vermont Custody

Custody in Vermont is called "parental rights and responsibilities". Parental rights and responsibilities are divided into two categories: legal and physical. Legal rights and responsibilities means the right to make decisions regarding major events in a child's life, such as elective surgery, religion , and schooling. Physical rights and responsibilities means the place at which the child resides. Legal and physical rights and responsibilities may be held in a number of ways. For example, a parent may have sole legal and physical, shared legal and sole physical, or the parents may share both legal and physical. The parents may share physical but one parent may retain legal rights and responsibilities. However apportioned, parental rights and responsibilities are a very important and critical aspect of divorce where children are concerned.